Synopsis
Liz Bonnin witnesses the devastation of the Amazon rainforest from the sky.
- Programme: Meat: A Threat to Our Planet?
- Channel: BBC One
- Broadcast year: 2019
- Geography | Ecosystems | Tropical rainforest biomes | Deforestation of the rainforest
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